The SSDAN encompasses a collection of projects designed to make U.S. census and other social science data accessible to a broad audience of educators, media representatives, policymakers, and informed citizens. It maintains the web sites www.SSDAN.net, www.CensusScope.org, and www.Ameristat.org (with the Population Reference Bureau), which along with its publications and workshops, facilitate this goal. Begun as a curricula development and dissemination project with funding from the Sloan Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, SSDAN has branched out to create additional demographic media.